I'm just getting started on Drupal 7, and I've discovered (much to my surprise) that the entire system for blocking emails and usernames has been removed. I'm unhappy about this -- writing rules banning certain mail providers is an important antispam tool, and banning obscene usernames also is important.

There's a project (http://drupal.org/project/user_restrictions) to replace the functionality, but since it's not in core I am inclined to start ripping out all of the "ban" support from this module. There's a lot of overhead and if it's not going to be widely used, there's no point. Usernames continue to be "banned" so long as the account exists in a blocked state, so there's little loss of functionality.

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marvil07’s picture

marvil07 commented

I think core issue #146076: Block the author while deleting content is related.

shark’s picture

shark commented

First, I'd like to say that I love the Ban & Unpublish module.

The ability to unpublish all content by a user is super helpful for moderating spam.

> I am inclined to start ripping out all of the "ban" support from this module.

+1 for removing the ban support if that means we get the unpublish functionality in a D7 module sooner.

(But ideally that functionality would only be removed from a D7 module, right?)

Thanks!

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soumyadas commented

Hi yelvington,

I have tried to create the d7 version of this module. here is the link http://drupal.org/node/1938428. Please share your feedback about this. It will be highly appreciable.

Thanks,
Soumya

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bappa.sarkar commented

Works fine for me. Thanks!

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clandmeter commented

I created another drupal 7 version some months ago. Didn't have time yet to really test it. Maybe somebody else can give it a try and report?

https://github.com/clandmeter/block_unpublish

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yelvington commented
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Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Closing this issue; d7 dev version is published.